That terror attack in kabul, afghanistan targeting foreigners. Learning two americans were among the almost two dozen killed. The newest member of our team haimish McDonald is following breaking developments. Welcome to abc and good morning. Reporter: Good morning. The death toll stands at 21 including two american civilians working for the american university of afghanistan. No names released because the families are still being informed. One was in the political signs faculty and other in student affairs this. Occurred at a lebanese restaurant in perhaps the wealthiest and possibly the safest part of kabul. Anyone that's been there can tell you whoever carried it through had to go through a number of security checkpoints to get there much the police chief responsible for the area has been stood down pending an investigation and the taliban has claimed responsibility, they say it's a revenge attack, dan. An operation carried out earlier this week in which multiple cilians they say were killed. Frightening shift. Usually they go after hard targets. This time a soft target. Hamish, thank you very much for your reporting. We have another breaking

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